On Sun, 6 May 2007 21:44:16 -0500 (CDT) Steven M. Schweda wrote: > From: R Kimber > > > If I have a series of files such as > > > > http://www.stirling.gov.uk/elections07abcd.pdf > > http://www.stirling.gov.uk/elections07efg.pdf > > http://www.stirling.gov.uk/elections07gfead.pdf > > > > etc > > > > is there a single wget command that would download them all, or > > would I need to do each one separately? > > It depends. As usual, it might help to know your wget version and > operating system, but in this case, a more immediate mystery would be > what you mean by "them all", and how one would know which such files > exist.
GNU Wget 1.10.2, Ubuntu 7.04 > If there's a Web page which has links to all of them, then you > could use a recursive download starting with that page. Look through > the output from "wget -h", paying particular attention to the sections > "Recursive download" and "Recursive accept/reject". If there's no > such Web page, then how would wget be able to divine the existence of > these files? Yes there's a web page. I usually know what I want. But won't a recursive get get more than just those files? Indeed, won't it get everything at that level? The accept/reject options seem to assume you know what's there and can list them to exclude them. I only know what I want. Not necessarily what I don't want. I did look at the man page, and came to the tentative conclusion that there wasn't a way (or at least an efficient way) of doing it, which is why I asked the question. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
